Garden Seat

Arts of the Americas

c. 1969

Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922–2011)

Toshiko Takaezu revolutionized the world of clay with the abstract shapes and painterly glazes of her ceramic forms. She came to her signature closed vessels in the late 1950s, continuing to push their scale to new heights over the course of her long career. Takaezu related her simplified sculptures and expressive glazes to her engagement with Zen Buddhism and Japanese art and culture; for her, the form and decoration were intuitive and she embraced what she called “the unknown, the intangibles” in her work.

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Toshiko Takaezu
Title: Garden Seat
Place: New Jersey (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1969
Medium: Stoneware and glazes
Dimensions: 35 × 29.2 cm (14 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Katharine Kuh
Reference Number: 1995.118

Katherine Kuh (1904–1994; born Katharine Woolf), Chicago then New York, by Dec. 31, 1968 [Katharine Kuh documentation in Art Institute of Chicago Insitutional Archives, Dec. 31, 1968]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994.

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